Monday, November 30, 2009

Taking suggestions on two things

We're going to run our monthly national poll this weekend, even though it's only been three weeks since the last one.

So I'm looking for your suggestions on two things:

-Outside the box questions. Last month we asked about whether people thought ACORN stole the election. In the past we've asked about things like whether the Government should stay out of Medicare and whether people think Obama is the anti-Christ. We like to get a few of that type of question on every survey.

-The 4th Republican. We'll continue to take a monthly look at Mike Huckabee (which should be very interesting this week), Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney and we've been switching up the fourth Republican on a month to month basis. I'll take nominations for the next 24 hours and then let you vote on it- anyone but Ron Paul, since we did him on the last poll.

Cheney or Pawlenty as 4th GOP. In addition to F/UF for GOPers ask the question if they are "qualified" to be POTUS? For outside the box, do a 3rd party poll like Ras did last week (maybe using Dobbs/Paul/etc) and compare it to just GOP vs Obama. Also could ask as of today, would you vote for Obama for POTUS?

How about Haley Barbour? He's popular with GOP insiders, popular in his home state of Mississippi, and was about the only elected official that came out of the horror of Katrina looking pretty good. He likely has low name recognition, but he's a sleeper - in my opinion - that Democrats should be scared of.

As a poker fan, I would be interested in getting some numbers as to how popular the ban is on online gambling enacted by the Bush administration. Something along the lines of "Would you favor or oppose legalizing online gambling such as online poker?"

If Giuliani snags Gillibrand's Senate seat, you can look for Rudy to join Huckabee and Romney in pursuit of the presidency once again. With McCain not running, and Independents having only GOP primaries to participate in, there appears to be a significant opening in the field for the socially moderate/economically conservative former New York mayor.

1) "President Obama recently announced his plan to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan. Do you think this troop increase should be paid for with new taxes, or should the additional cost be added to the deficit?"